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New Wave Sissy Boy 80s Hits You Were Afraid To Admit You...
Yahoo!'s New Wave Sissy Boy 80s Hits You Were Afraid To Admit You Liked In High School
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
No One Is To Blame - Howard Jones
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club
Poison Arrow - ABC
Save A Prayer - Duran Duran
Careless Whisper - Wham!
Hold Me Now - The Thompson Twins
If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
It's My Life - Talk Talk
More Than This - Roxy Music
I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock Of Seagulls
Promises, Promises - Naked Eyes
Perfect Way - Scritti Politti
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Only You - Yaz
Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Love Plus One - Haircut 100
True - Spandau Ballet
Fortunately I didn't go to High School in the '80s, but I liked the Howard Jones, Roxy Music, Haircut 100 and Flock of Seagulls. I'm surprised Come on Eileen wasn't on there...True has to be one of the weirdest songs ever written.
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
No One Is To Blame - Howard Jones
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club
Poison Arrow - ABC
Save A Prayer - Duran Duran
Careless Whisper - Wham!
Hold Me Now - The Thompson Twins
If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
It's My Life - Talk Talk
More Than This - Roxy Music
I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock Of Seagulls
Promises, Promises - Naked Eyes
Perfect Way - Scritti Politti
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Only You - Yaz
Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Love Plus One - Haircut 100
True - Spandau Ballet
Fortunately I didn't go to High School in the '80s, but I liked the Howard Jones, Roxy Music, Haircut 100 and Flock of Seagulls. I'm surprised Come on Eileen wasn't on there...True has to be one of the weirdest songs ever written.
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I'm with you.dlbpharmd wrote:Hey, I hated all of those songs!
Somebody must have liked them though because they were on the radio all the time.
Yeah, all you kids, the radio.
And not just a radio but many were GIGANTIC radios.
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Love Plus One sounds a little goofy these days, but Love +1 it sounded a bit like Men w/o Hats and made absolutely no sense whatsoever-that's why I liked it-in the '80s. (Yes dlb & HLT most sucked, real bad...). Blame MTV<seriously that's where they all got their 1st play...
Tainted Love drives me totally insane (in a bad way)...
Tainted Love drives me totally insane (in a bad way)...
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I really like Careless Whisper and No One Is To Blame. West End Girls and Safety Dance weren't bad either. The rest of them come close to inducing vomit for me.
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Much as I respect your views on music, danlo, you've got it all wrong here. I HATED school - nearly every single f***king aspect of it, and found refuge in a lot of the new wave music of the 80's - not necessarily all the songs on your list, but new wave in general. Thanks for associating my adolescent musical memories with sissyhood.
I'm with you on this matrixman. School SUCKED; the only thing I found joy in was the music at the time. I wish today's music sounded more like the 80's, over-produced sounds and all. Most of the songs on that list are great, especially "Hold Me Now" from Thompson Twins.matrixman wrote:Much as I respect your views on music, danlo, you've got it all wrong here. I HATED school - nearly every single f***king aspect of it, and found refuge in a lot of the new wave music of the 80's - not necessarily all the songs on your list, but new wave in general. Thanks for associating my adolescent musical memories with sissyhood.
So call me a sissy boy all you like you 80's haters! 80's music fills me with joy.
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Geez matrixman-I didn't make the list, some fool on a Yahoo blog did. I put it up to create discussion not animosity and I didn't say every song sucked....
Damm don't take it so fricking seriously.
The guilty party is named Robert of the Radish (see, he's such a sissy boy himself he won't use his real name.
) link You can listen to all those songs if you subscribe to Yahoo's new Music Jukebox-so actually it was a promotion-he just gave it a controversial name. Sorry, I thought it was funny...
I know how you feel-I was sent to an all boys boarding school in the middle of nowhere in 1970 and the upperclassmen pounded on us harder than usual because they were scared to death that they'd be sent to Vietnam. Back then the local rock station pounded us continously with Maggie Mae and Stairway to Heaven and despite how good Zepplin is I can't stand either song till this day.
I didn't say all these groups sucked, hell I was a major Fixx fan and owned two of Hall & Oates earlier albums including the Red Rocks one. I even liked Loggins and Messina and Seals and Croft and I've even admited once the I had Bananarama's 45 I Heard a Rumor. So defend your music, but don't take it all out on me.
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The guilty party is named Robert of the Radish (see, he's such a sissy boy himself he won't use his real name.
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I know how you feel-I was sent to an all boys boarding school in the middle of nowhere in 1970 and the upperclassmen pounded on us harder than usual because they were scared to death that they'd be sent to Vietnam. Back then the local rock station pounded us continously with Maggie Mae and Stairway to Heaven and despite how good Zepplin is I can't stand either song till this day.
I didn't say all these groups sucked, hell I was a major Fixx fan and owned two of Hall & Oates earlier albums including the Red Rocks one. I even liked Loggins and Messina and Seals and Croft and I've even admited once the I had Bananarama's 45 I Heard a Rumor. So defend your music, but don't take it all out on me.
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I don't think it's sissy music. It was cool in the eighties and I think it's still cool now. I LOVE Cyndi Lauper. What a set of pipes that gal has. I love her so much I created a tribute to her with the "Arch of Time" video in FBH episode 40. George Michaels put all his music up for free on his website cuz he already made his money and it's more important to him for his fans to have his music. How uber cool is that? There's nothing sissy about that.
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As a sissy boy in the 80's, I enjoyed a lot of these songs. I used to try to feign macho-hood in Jr. High, but somewhere in 9th grade I realized that the really hot chicks really dug these sissy boys. Then I found that my voice most fit alongside these sissy boys, and I sounded considerably like Simon Le Bon. In high school, after I lost the birth-control glasses and found a wardrobe that I liked and set me apart from the t-shirt and jeans wearing every-other-guy, women finally took notice of me. Then I joined a band whose prime influence was Duran Duran, and I became more popular still.
So yes, becoming a sissy boy made me a man.
I still think a few of these bands are especially good. Like Men Without Hats, Depeche Mode, Cyndi Lauper and Duran Duran. However, Men Without Hats & Depeche Mode only had two solidly good albums and scattered nice one here and there, and Duran Duran I was never especially excited about, but because I sing like Simon Le Bon, I owe them thanks for getting in my first band. As for Cyndi Lauper, she's just damn amazing, and I still say Hat Full Of Stars is her best album out of a host of really good ones.
So yes, becoming a sissy boy made me a man.
I still think a few of these bands are especially good. Like Men Without Hats, Depeche Mode, Cyndi Lauper and Duran Duran. However, Men Without Hats & Depeche Mode only had two solidly good albums and scattered nice one here and there, and Duran Duran I was never especially excited about, but because I sing like Simon Le Bon, I owe them thanks for getting in my first band. As for Cyndi Lauper, she's just damn amazing, and I still say Hat Full Of Stars is her best album out of a host of really good ones.
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